What does TAAS stand for?

Texas Assessment of Academic Skills

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He promoted the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills exams, which tested all third to eighth grade students in the state and showed steadily improving scores, particularly among Hispanic and African-American students.

Education reset: the next version of No Child Left Behind is not ...

Texas developed a set of academic standards and exams--the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), formerly Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS)--to test those skills.

Reauthorization of NCLB: federal management or citizen ownership of ...

In 1994, the first time the new Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) tests were given to all 4th-, 8th-, and 10th-grade students, half the kids in the district failed.

Learning facts: the brave new world of data-informed instruction

TAAS, or Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, which has been used since 1990, will be replaced with TAKS, or Texas Assessment of Knowledge Skills, which better reflects the curriculum.

Self-examination: new law means more technology for new tests.

A Team Approach Texas also is facing an assessment upgrade as the state moves from the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills to the more analytical Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills to begin next year.

Secondary School Reading: Specialists in high school may be rare, but ...

Robert Holland Arlington, VA We live in the "highly regarded" suburban school district of Plano, Texas, where over 90 percent of all students passed all the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) tests last year.

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In the 2000 school year, students in the district had an 80 percent passing rate on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills and improved attendance and lower dropout rates.

THE VALUE OF VOUCHERS COMPETITION BEST FOR EDUCATION REFORM

This was observed when the vaunted improvement on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills was not matched by comparable improvements on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal exam.

A frenzy of testing isn't helping education